WEBVTT
SOLEDAD: WELCOME BACK TO
"MATTER
OF FACT."
HAVOC IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
SEEMS TO BE THE OUTCOME AFTER
THE VIDEOTAPE OR DONALD TRUMP
MADE SEXUALLY INAPPROPRIATE
COMMENTS ABOUT WOMEN.
TRUMP SAID HE COULD KISS AND
TOUCH WOMEN FREELY, INCLUDING
GRABBING THEIR GENITALS, BECAUSE
HE WAS "A STAR."
HE LATER APOLOGIZED AND DEFENDED
THE REMARKS AS LOCKER ROOM TALK.
PUBLIC COMMENTS WERE SWIFT, AND
OTHERS HAVE STAYED WITH THE
CANDIDATE.
WE ARE HAVING A NATIONAL
CONVERSATION ABOUT TRUMP'S
REMARKS.
WE HAVE THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK
"ASKING FOR IT: THE ALARMING
RISE OF RAPE CULTURE AND WHAT WE
CAN DO ABOUT IT."
WHAT EXACTLY IS RAPE CULTURE?
>> IT IS THE TERM THAT DESCRIBES
THE CULTURE WHERE WE REALLY DO
NOT DO ENOUGH TO PREVENT SEXUAL
VIOLENCE, AND IT OPERATES BY
BLAMING THE VICTIM BY EXPRESSING
DISBELIEF WHEN THERE IS A CLAIM
OF RAPE, AND THAT LEADS UP TO A
CULTURE THAT SUPPORTS THE NEEDS
OF RAPISTS AND ABUSERS MORE THAN
THE VICTIMS.
SOLEDAD: I HAVE BEEN SURPRISED
THAT THERE IS A DEBATE OVER
WHETHER OR NOT GRABBING A
WOMAN'S CROTCH WOULD BE
CONSIDERED SEXUAL ASSAULT.
IT SEEMS SORT OF OBVIOUS TO ME.
>> YOU WOULD THINK THAT.
AND THE ONLY ARGUMENT I CAN SEE
IS THAT IN SOME STATES IN MY
BECAUSE SEXUAL ABUSE.
BUT THE IDEA THAT GRABBING A
WOMAN BY THE GENITALIA IS
ANYTHING OTHER THAN SEXUAL
AGGRESSION AND A CRIMINAL ACT IS
JUST RIDICULOUS.
SOLEDAD: TALK ABOUT THE
INTERSECTION OF POWER WITH RAPE
CULTURE.
A LOT OF THE WORDS THAT DONALD
TRUMP USED WERE, YOU KNOW, THEY
WILL LET YOU DO IT, BECAUSE, YOU
KNOW, IF YOU ARE RICH, IF YOU'RE
A STAR.
>> EXACTLY.
IT ALL KIN OF -- ISSUES FROM
THE SAME SORT O JUST CORRODED
ENTITLEMENT, I THINK, A SENSE OF
ENTITLEMENT TO WOMEN'S BODIES,
TO CONTROL THEIR BODIES AND TO
DO WHAT YOU WANT WITH THEM.
HE DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THAT
DISTINCTION BETWEE BEING
AN
ATTRACTIVE LADY MAN AND BEING A
SEXUAL ABUSER IS REALLY
DISTURBING.
SOLEDAD: IT HAS BEEN FRAMED AS
LOCKER ROOM TALK.
LIKE, LISTEN, YOU DON'T REALLY
UNDERSTAND, THIS IS HOW GUYS
TALK.
THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF MEN
WHO ARE OFFENDED, MANY OF THE
ACTUALLY PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES
WHO SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN THE
LOCKER ROOMS AS THEIR JOBS WHO
ARE OFFENDED BY THAT KIND OF
DESCRIPTION.
>> ABSOLUTEL
YOU KNOW IT IS HEARTENING TO
HEAR MEN SAY, NO WE DON'T TALK
, LIKE THIS AND WE DO NOT
CONDONE THIS.
AND IT IS SAD TO HEAR THE PEOPLE
TRYING TO DISMISS THIS AS KIND
OF NORMAL BEHAVIOR, NORMAL WAYS
THAT MEN TALK, THAT MEN ARE JUST
CASUALLY TALKING ABOUT
, YOU KNOW, ASSAULTING WOMEN
WHENEVER WE AREN'T AROUND.
THEY DO NOT REALIZE THAT SOME
GUYS ARE JUST TALKING AND SOME
GUYS ARE ACTUALLY DOING THESE
THINGS AND THINK THAT ALL THE
REST OF THE MEN SUPPORT THEM
DOING THAT.
SOLEDAD: YOU ARE A RAPE
SURVIVOR.
>> I AM.
SOLEDAD: AND I AM CURIOUS IF
THIS NATIONAL CONVERSATION,
WHICH I THINK FOR SOME PEOPLE IS
CATHARTIC, IS VERY DISTRESSIN
FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SURVIVED
SEXUAL ASSAULT?
>> I THINK EVERY SURVIVOR HAS A
DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE, AND I HAVE
NO DOUBT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO
ARE SURVIVORS WHO ARE REALLY
STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE
THERE IS SO MUCH CONVERSATION
ABOUT THIS EVERY DAY, SO MANY
GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF ACTS
THAT ARE UNDER CONSIDERATION
HERE.
PERSONALLY I FEEL LUCKY I DON'T
, HAVE PTSD, AND IT IS SOMETHING
THAT I AM ABLE TO WRITE AND
SPEAK ABOUT ON BEHALF OF PEOPLE
WHO MAYBE DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE

Women’s Researcher: Trump’s Comments Beyond “Locker Room Talk”

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Updated: 7:33 PM CDT Oct 14, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is once again at the center of a political firestorm. Crude comments involving sexual misconduct were captured on videotape by an Access Hollywood recording crew, 11 years ago.